were evaporating
- past progressive of evaporate.
Example Sentences
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The city’s better-paying manufacturing and industrial jobs were evaporating because of economic shifts, spawning an exodus of middle-class earners to the suburbs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024
In particular, frightened investors appeared to be fleeing from corporate bonds, which was making it harder and more expensive for companies to borrow just as their revenues were evaporating.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2020
Condensing on the eyes of the most powerful man on earth, his tears inspired the upsetting sense that they were evaporating off a deeper reservoir of his resolve.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 4, 2018
The haze from Indonesia’s forest fires muddied the day; the ocean looked as if it were evaporating in front of us.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2017
Women fared somewhat better during this period because the social-service sector in urban areas—which employs primarily women—was expanding at the same time manufacturing jobs were evaporating.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
